CFP: Romanticism and the Gothic (9/15/06; ASECS; 3/22/07-3/25/07)

This panel invites papers investigating the slippery boundary betweenRomanticism and popular gothic fiction from the late eighteenth andearly nineteenth centuries. Possible papers could examine gothic dramasby seminal figures in Romantic poetry (Coleridge's /Osorio/,Wordsworth's /Borderers/), the use of gothic motifs in Romantic poetry,the appearance of Romantic poetry within gothic prose (in Radcliffe's orSmith's novels), reception history and Romantic poets' self-positioningin relation to gothic writing, the gendering of these two simultaneousmovements, and personal relationships among these writers (MatthewLewis's friendships with Scott and Byron). Papers with an inter-genericor cultural history approach are especially welcome. Please send a briefabstract to Ellen Malenas at malenas_at_virginia.edu.